21/30: Regionalism meme
tehomet gave me the idea:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Creek (pronounced creek, not crick, though I believe crick is current about 75 miles east of here.)
2. What's the thing you push around the grocery store called?
A shopping cart, or just a cart.
3. A container to carry a meal in.
Um...a brown paper bag? A lunchbox? A picnic basket? Me, I put mine in my purse, wrapped in a bandanna.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutters (the horizontal part), downspouts (the vertical parts)
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
health hazard? (Soda, usually--from my upbringing in Hawaii)
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub on my mom's side, hoagie on my dad's.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swim trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers or running shoes (or maybe Nikes?)
13. Putting a room in order.
"Calling the service"? I think maybe we're getting at "cleaning house" or "picking up"
14. What you have on your bed in winter to keep your warm sometimes with feathers in it?
Duvet--but I picked that up in Europe. I think other family members call it a comforter.
15. What do you call women's skimpy underwear?
Depends on how skimpy. Panties, bikinis, thong...?
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down.
Teeter-totter
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Gluten-free these days, and rarely. But with my hands.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale, yard sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
In my particular case, a dirt hole in the ground. Basement.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Drinking fountain. And, specifically in Portland, a Simon Benson.
22. What do you call the front of your car? what do you call the back of the car?
My car? The handlebars and the rear rack, basically. Someone else's car? Hood and trunk.
23. What do you call the thing the kids carry their books to school in?
Backpack.
24. What do you call the thing you keep your money in? What do you call the bag you keep that thing in?
A debit card. Heh. Nah, a wallet, in my purse.
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